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Y @atten stent @ffice i Letters Patent No. 80,697',dated August 4, 1868; anteclateflluly 27, 18.68.

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`T O ALL WHOM-IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, Al'ILLIAitI H. ABEL, of Greenville, in the county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented-certain new-and use fnl Improvements in the Short Sleeves of Under-Shirts or Vests which are worn by children, lads, or misses, or the short sleeves of any similar garments, of which the following is a full, clear, and 'exact description, reference being had to the-accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in whichl y Figure 1 represents one side of a portion of a childs ander-shirt or vest, which has my improvements applied thereto. i Y

lFigure 2, the opposite side of thesame. Y v

Figures 3, 4, and 5'show detached sleeves in dirent stages of construction,

This inventionand improvement consists in lmaking the short sleeves of knitted under-shirts or vests in tapes or strips, withv selvagecdges to connect with the selvage edges oi' the body oi' the garment and the cuii or border, so that' instead of having e. bulgy seam where the sleeve andthe body ofthe garment or the cuit' are united, theselvage edges may bennited, and'have the surfaces nearly or quite as smooth and evezLas the other portions, and so that both the sleeve and the body of the garment will shrink in the same direction equally.

Woven fabrics maybe employed in the same way, by having the tapes or strips of which the sleeves are ma'de woven withs'elvage'edges to unite with other selvage edges, and thns avoid a b ulgy seam.

4This invention' also eosists in'fortningfgussets of sleeves, which lare made of lknitted or woven tapes or strips, with s'elv'age edgesLby -foldingover thecnds or corners, as clearly shown in figs. 3, 4, and 5, of the drawings, and bysecnringgthe same, as described. I y

, 'in the ordinary knitted sleeves of childrens under-shirts or vests, the courses of stitches in such sleeves run in the opposite direction to the courses of stitches in the body ofthe garment, and when such ordinaryknittedsleevcs are finished vready for the garment, the'conneeting endsof such ordinary'fknitted sleeves present a perfect edge of loops or stitches, which will readily ravcl, and when these ordinary knitted sleeves are united with tho body ofthe garment, each of the aforesaid loops or stitches must be connected with the body of the garment 'at the side olf-some portion oi" the arm-hole, by sewing, stitching, or otherwise securing each loop or stitch separately to some portion o f the edge of the arm-hole or the connecting place for the sleeve, thus making it a tedions and'expensivejob to connect such ordinary knitted sleeves with the b ody ofthe garment; besides, such ordinary knitted sleeves are liable to wrinkle and packer and greatly annoy the wearer.

ntheordinary-short'sleevesof garments Vmade of woven fabrics, a gusset is sometimes set in atthe under side, andsometimes the under side 'of the sleeve is cnt on an angle, and a seam sewed at the under side of the sleeve, and such'sleeve isconnected with the body of the garment by aV bulgy scam, which, with one or more of such seams required to make the sleeve, renders such sleeves less comfortable and easy than sleeves which have no bulgy seam, but are'smo'othly connected.

Inn carrying ont my inventionl make the portion A, which forrnsthe short sleeve or sleeves, in tapes or strips of any desired width for the length of the sleeve, and then cut said strips into lengths twice as long as the arm-hole, -lcss the width of the strip. These pieces are then Yfol-ded over, as shownin iig. 3, one end, a, extending beyond the other end, b, the width of the strip.

l his extending end is then folded over on the dotted line c, the corner d brought down to the corner e of the end, b, and theparts sewed together on the line e g, when the sleeve is ready to be scwed or otherwise readily and speedily fastened or joined to the sides of the arm-hole, and by a very smooth seam.

The tapes or strips above described have two selvedgc edges, one of which is to unite with the selvages at thelside of the armho'le, on theline x, figs. 1 and 2, and the other with the cuff B, on. the linef, thus forming a very strong, even, and smooth seam where the sleeve and the garment or the cuifareunited, and a sleeve that will always shrink in the same direction with the body ofthe garment, and in the same proportion, as'all the courses of stitches in all the parts run in the same direction. I

The two angular portions, It, form the gusset of the sleeve, and in a cheaper, smoother, and moreeimple' and. durable manner thanby any other method I have ever seen; and such a sleeve is always easy and very comfortable to the wearer, as no bulgy seams nor puekering or wrinkling are apparent when the garment is worn or washed, or from any ordinary cause, all as will be readily understood by persons skilled in the art of making knitted or looped garments. Y

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv 1. Making the short sleeves ofunder-shirt's, vests, and similar garments, of tapes or' strips which have selvage edges, and in whiehthe courses of stitches or'loops run in the same direction asl in the body of the garment, for the purpose and substantially as described.

.12. Forming the Agusset of such sleeves in the manner and for the purpose-substantially as described WM. H. ABEL.

Witnesses: EBER S. BOWEN,

Taos. Tucker.. 

